Bleedin’ Bullets: Friday the 13th Edition

Caroline on Crack offers four ghoulish ways to celebrate Friday the 13th, while Elina at LAist promises 13 “Scaaaaary” things to do, but fell asleep mumbling something about Freddy before she got to five (wake up Elina! Besides…wrong movie!)

According to Helena Lazaro, the hot Halloween costume this year is the Crocodile Hunter (Steve Irwin) – dust off that old stingray suit for a great couples theme.

To hear tales of Angelenos who’ve had horrifically bad luck join the Halloween Horrors Crime Bus, “a five hour guided luxury coach tour to the most grisly, weird, horrific and unintentionally hilarious crime scenes of old Los Angeles. This tour is not recommended for children, and we suggest you BYOBB (bring your own barf bag).” To lighten the mood, a stop at the infamous Scoops Gelato is on the route, and Crimebo the Crime Clown is rumored to be riding along. Some tickets are still available for Saturday, even more for Sunday.

Random spooky trivia: while watching a documentary on the making of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion I learned that the famed location was opened on August 9th, 1969… the very same day that Charles Manson sent his “family” to slaughter Sharon Tate and friends. Coincidence?